Antique American Portrait Miniature, c.1800, ID'd and Artist Noted in Oyster Frame writer's with a paw showing along

with a paw showing along bottom

Okay so the frame and miniature are not original to each other but aren't they superb together

Beautiful shape for just hanging on your wall

perhaps twice

Very good to excellent as you see it

Antique American Portrait Miniature, c.1800, ID'd and Artist Noted in Oyster Frame writer's with a paw showing alongAnother American portrait miniature from my collection, this handsome distinguished gentleman is ID's in back, noting him to be "James Woodhouse" from New York, who died in 183 something (I didn't open the back, which seems complicated, and can only read what you see). It would appear that an artist's name is also mentioned as "W. Jarvin". I'm able to find a James Woodhouse but he's a generation older. A Dr in Pennsylvania, he died in 1809. It might